Thursday, September 27, 2007

"NEWT'S" NOTES ON FREEDOM By: Gordon Bishop

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is the most brilliant political analyst in America. 

As a reporter/columnist for the past 48 years, I have covered umpteen politicians, from Presidents and Governors down to U.S. Senators, Congressmen, Mayors and elected local council and committee members.

They’re not all bad. But they all seem to fall into the same bottomless pit after getting elected: Tax & Spend, Spend & Tax. 

Only a handful knows how to balance a budget at the federal, state, county and local levels of government. 

Of the 566 municipalities in the great State of New Jersey, only one – the town of Bogota, Bergen County – has balanced its annual budget the last 10 years without raising taxes.

That’s why my own home-state of New Jersey today has the pathetic distinction of having the highest property taxes in America. 

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